Donna Haraway

By o1michmich

  • Haraway is Born

    Donna Jean Haraway was born in Denver, Colorado. Her father, who was a sportswriter, heavily influenced her interest in writing. Her mother passed away when she was sixteen, but her Irish Catholic remained within Haraway. https://youtu.be/CNekH7S3Jhg

  • A Cyborg Manifesto

    This is Harraway's most recognized piece of work. In this essay, she uses the image of a cyborg to encourage women to look past traditional gender, feminism and politics. The cyborg is portrayed as a rejection of boundaries. Haraway, Donna Jeanne. A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s. Center for Social Research and Education, 1985.

  • Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©Meets_OncoMouse

    In this book, Haraway discusses the roles of theories, dreams, politics, scientific advances and more in 20th century technoscience. She later recieved a Ludwik Fleck prize for it in 1999. Haraway, Donna J. Modest Witness, Second Millennium: FemaleMan Meets OncoMouse. Routledge, 1997.

  • Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations

    This is Harraway's most recent book. It analyzes intimacy, kinship as well as reproductive and environmental justice. It also offers insight on forming personal and public connections in the contemporary world. Clark, Adele, and Donna Jeanne Haraway. Making Kin Not Population: Reconceiving Generations. Prickly Paradigm Press, 2018.